Download or read book One Hundred Years of American Railroading written by John William Starr and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nothing Like It In the World written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Download or read book Complete Book of North American Railroading written by Kevin EuDaly and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1827 marked the completion of the United States’ first railroad--and the beginning of a transformation of American life. This book, spanning nearly two centuries, offers an exhilarating tour of the railways’ inroads into the economy, society, and culture of North America. Illustrated with more than 400 historical and modern photographs and period advertisements, The Complete Book of North American Railroading takes readers back to the birth of the railroads, then travels through the “Golden Age” from 1900 to 1950 and on to the railways of our day. Locomotives, from steam to electric and diesel; passenger travel; freight operations; and infrastructure, including stations, bridges, depots, roundhouse, railyards, and signaling are all thoroughly examined and amply illustrated. Authors Kevin EuDaly and Mike Schafer delve into the history, the culture, and the technology of the railroads as they have carried travelers across the continent, brought goods to market, connected businesses in peacetime and war, and enriched the canon of American folklore and the quality of everyday life.
Download or read book The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of American Commerce written by Chauncey Mitchell Depew and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads 100 Years Old 1945 1955 written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Promontory written by Keith L. Bryant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape.”—The Michigan Railfan After Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, the book expands the narrative by considering all of the transcontinental routes in the United States and examining their impact on building this great nation. Exquisitely illustrated with full color photographs, After Promontory divides the western United States into three regions—central, southern, and northern—and offers a deep look at the transcontinental routes of each one. Included are contributions by such renowned railroad historians as Maury Klein, Keith Bryant, Don Hofsommer, H. Roger Grant, and Rob Krebs. Includes photos
Download or read book The Story of American Railroads written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by New York : Crown Publishers. This book was released on 1947 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth and development of our national railroad system, the men who built it in spite of weather, politicians, desert, and rivals; the ingenuity and inventiveness used to improve constantly devices and techniques in railroading.
Download or read book 1795 1895 One Hundred Years of American Commerce written by Ch. M. Depew and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Do Full Honor to the American Railroad in More Than One Hundred Years of Its Triumphant Success There Will be Presented Each Day at the New York World s Fair 1939 a Huge Dramatic Spectacle of Growth Achievement with Words by Edward Hungerford Music by Kurt Weill written by Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference. World's Fair Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads in the African American Experience written by Theodore Kornweibel and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For over a century, railroading provided the most important industrial occupation for blacks. Brakemen, firemen, porters, chefs, mechanics, laborers - African American men and women have been essential to the daily operation and success of American railroads. The connections between railroads and African Americans extend well beyond employment. Civil rights protests beginning in the late 19th century challenged railroad segregation and job discrimination; the major waves of black migration to the North depended almost entirely on railroads; and railroad themes and imagery penetrated deep into black art, literature, drama, folklore, and music."--Page 2 of cover.
Download or read book 1826 1926 written by Charles Frederick Carter and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads Across North America written by Claude Wiatrowski and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great engine powering the nations growth and industry. This book celebrates the glory and grandeur of that legacy with a lavish tour of the history of the American railroad and the culture surrounding it. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs, modern images, maps, timetables, tickets, brochures, and all manner of memorabilia, this volume offers a fascinating look at the rail industrys beginnings and development, as well as its place in American history. From the might of the major rail companies and their empires to the romance of rail travel, this is the full and fabulously colorful story of the industry that moved a nation--and stirs our imaginations to this day.
Download or read book American Railroads written by Robert E. Gallamore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.
Download or read book Railroads Triumphant written by Albro Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-02 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with few people settling more than a hundred miles from the ocean (a mere two percent lived west of the Appalachians). America in effect was just a thin ribbon of land by the sea, and it wasn't until the coming of the steam railroad that our nation would unfurl across the vast inland territory. In Railroads Triumphant, Albro Martin provides a fascinating history of rail transportation in America, moving well beyond the "Romance of the Rails" sort of narrative to give readers a real sense of the railroad's importance to our country. The railroad, Martin argues, was "the most fundamental innovation in American material life." It could go wherever rails could be laid--and so, for the first time, farms, industries, and towns could leave natural waterways behind and locate anywhere. (As Martin points out, the railroads created small-town America just as surely as the automobile created the suburbs.) The railroad was our first major industry, and it made possible or promoted the growth of all other industries, among them coal, steel, flour milling, and commercial farming. It established such major cities as Chicago, and had a lasting impact on urban design. And it worked hand in hand with the telegraph industry to transform communication. Indeed, the railroads were the NASA of the 19th century, attracting the finest minds in finance, engineering, and law. But Martin doesn't merely catalogue the past greatness of the railroad. In closing with the episodes that led first to destructive government regulation, and then to deregulation of the railroads and the ensuing triumphant rebirth of the nation's basic means of moving goods from one place to another, Railroads Triumphant offers an impassioned defense of their enduring importance to American economic life. And it is a book informed by a lifelong love of railroads, brimming with vivid descriptions of classic depots, lavish hotels in Chicago, the great railroad founders, and the famous lines. Thoughtful and colorful by turn, this insightful history illuminates the impact of the railroad on our lives.
Download or read book Railroad Maps of North America written by Andrew M. Modelski and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1984 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Years of American Commerce 1795 1895 written by Chauncey M. Depew and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
